Spydus Search Results - 2024 Booker Prize Longlist https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=SVL(bookerprizelonglist)%20-%20MINOR%3AITD16&QRYTEXT=2024%20Booker%20Prize%20Longlist&SETLVL=SET&CF=BIB&SORTS=DTE.DATE1.DESC&NRECS=20 Spydus Search Results en © 2022 Civica Pty Limited. All rights reserved. Headshot / Rita Bullwinkel. https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3688709&CF=BIB The story of the eight best teenage girl boxers in the United States, told over the two days of a championship tournament and structured as a series of face-offs. As the girls' pasts and futures collide, the specific joy and violence of the sport comes to life with electric energy, and a portrait emerges of the desire, envy, perfectionism, madness and sheer physical pleasure that motivates each of these young women to fight. The story of the eight best teenage girl boxers in the United States, told over the two days of a championship tournament and structured as a series of face-offs. As the girls' pasts and futures collide, the specific joy and violence of the sport comes to life with electric energy, and a portrait emerges of the desire, envy, perfectionism, madness and sheer physical pleasure that motivates each of these young women to fight.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Bullwinkel, Rita<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Daunt Books, 2024.<br />232 pages ; 20 cm<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">7 reserves</span><br /><br />Arcadia Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback - Onloan - Due: 12 Nov 2024 - C0000020516303<br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback - On reserve shelf at Didsbury Library - C0000020513843<br />Didsbury Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback - Onloan - Due: 04 Nov 2024 - C0000020516255<br /> My friends / Hisham Matar. https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3710698&CF=BIB Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh: two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies. In a moment of recklessness and courage, they travel to London to join a demonstration in front of the Libyan embassy. When government officials open fire on protestors in broad daylight, both friends are wounded, and their lives forever changed. Over the years that follow, Khaled, Mustafa and their friend Hosam, a writer, are bound together by their shared history. If friendship is a space to inhabit, theirs becomes small and inhospitable when a revolution in Libya forces them to choose between the lives they have created in London and the lives they left behind. Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh: two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies. In a moment of recklessness and courage, they travel to London to join a demonstration in front of the Libyan embassy. When government officials open fire on protestors in broad daylight, both friends are wounded, and their lives forever changed. Over the years that follow, Khaled, Mustafa and their friend Hosam, a writer, are bound together by their shared history. If friendship is a space to inhabit, theirs becomes small and inhospitable when a revolution in Libya forces them to choose between the lives they have created in London and the lives they left behind.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Matar, Hisham, 1970-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Viking, 2024.<br />256 pages ; 23 cm<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">9 reserves</span><br /><br />Chorlton Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Reservation allocation expired (Set: 02 Nov 2024) - C0000020492695<br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - On reserve shelf at Arcadia Library - C0000020480569<br />Hulme High St - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 18 Oct 2024 - C0000020480742<br /> Wild houses / Colin Barrett. https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3711538&CF=BIB As Ballina prepares for its biggest weekend of the year, the simmering feud between small-time dealer, Cillian English, and County Mayo's fraternal enforcers, Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, spills over into violence and an ugly ultimatum. When the reclusive Dev answers his door on Friday night he finds Doll - Cillian's bruised, sullen, teenage brother - in the clutches of Gabe and Sketch. Jostled by his nefarious cousins, goaded by his dead mother's dog and struck by spinning lights, Dev is unwillingly drawn headlong into the Ferdias' revenge fantasy. Meanwhile, seventeen-year-old Nicky can't shake the feeling something bad has happened to her boyfriend Doll. Hungover, reeling from a fractious Friday night and plagued by ghosts of her own, Nicky sets out on a feverish mission to save Doll, even as she questions her future in Ballina. As Ballina prepares for its biggest weekend of the year, the simmering feud between small-time dealer, Cillian English, and County Mayo's fraternal enforcers, Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, spills over into violence and an ugly ultimatum. When the reclusive Dev answers his door on Friday night he finds Doll - Cillian's bruised, sullen, teenage brother - in the clutches of Gabe and Sketch. Jostled by his nefarious cousins, goaded by his dead mother's dog and struck by spinning lights, Dev is unwillingly drawn headlong into the Ferdias' revenge fantasy. Meanwhile, seventeen-year-old Nicky can't shake the feeling something bad has happened to her boyfriend Doll. Hungover, reeling from a fractious Friday night and plagued by ghosts of her own, Nicky sets out on a feverish mission to save Doll, even as she questions her future in Ballina.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Barrett, Colin, 1982-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Jonathan Cape, 2024.<br />288 pages ; 23 cm<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">2 reserves</span><br /><br />Arcadia Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - In-transit from Arcadia Library to Burnage Outreach Library (Set: 02 Nov 2024) - C0000020486627<br />Avenue Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 23 Nov 2024 - C0000020486657<br />Chorlton Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - On reserve shelf at City Library - C0000020486530<br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 07 Nov 2024 - C0000020486561<br />Didsbury Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 21 Oct 2024 - C0000020486597<br /> Wandering stars / Tommy Orange. https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3746922&CF=BIB Following its unforgettable characters through almost two centuries of history, from the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1865 to the aftermath of a mass shooting in the early 21st century, 'Wandering Stars' is an indelible novel of America's war on its own people. It is also the tender, shattering story of many generations of a Native American family, struggling to find ways through displacement, addiction and pain, towards home and hope. Following its unforgettable characters through almost two centuries of history, from the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1865 to the aftermath of a mass shooting in the early 21st century, 'Wandering Stars' is an indelible novel of America's war on its own people. It is also the tender, shattering story of many generations of a Native American family, struggling to find ways through displacement, addiction and pain, towards home and hope.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Orange, Tommy, 1982-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Harvill Secker, 2024.<br />320 pages ; 24 cm<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">12 reserves</span><br /><br />Avenue Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 16 Nov 2024 - C0000020515627<br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 12 Nov 2024 - C0000020488813<br />Didsbury Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - On reserve shelf at City Library - C0000020515691<br />Withington Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - In-transit from Chorlton Library to Arcadia Library (Set: 22 Oct 2024) - C0000020492328<br /> James / Percival Everett. https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3760122&CF=BIB The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson's Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father who recently returned to town. Thus begins a dangerous and transcendent journey by raft along the Mississippi River, toward the elusive promise of free states and beyond. As James and Huck begin to navigate the treacherous waters, each bend in the river holds the promise of both salvation and demise. With rumours of a brewing war, James must face the burden he carries: the family he is desperate to protect and the constant lie he must live. And together, the unlikely pair must face the most dangerous odyssey of them all. The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson's Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father who recently returned to town. Thus begins a dangerous and transcendent journey by raft along the Mississippi River, toward the elusive promise of free states and beyond. As James and Huck begin to navigate the treacherous waters, each bend in the river holds the promise of both salvation and demise. With rumours of a brewing war, James must face the burden he carries: the family he is desperate to protect and the constant lie he must live. And together, the unlikely pair must face the most dangerous odyssey of them all.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Everett, Percival<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Mantle, 2024.<br />302 pages : maps (black and white) ; 25 cm<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">6 reserves</span><br /><br />15 copies <br /> This strange eventful history : a novel / Claire Messud. https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3773720&CF=BIB June 1940. As Paris falls to the Germans, Gaston Cassar - honorable servant of France, devoted husband and father, currently posted as naval attache in Salonica - bids farewell to his beloved wife, aunt and children, placing his faith in God that they will be reunited after the war. But escaping the violence of that cataclysm is not the same as emerging unscathed. The family will never again be whole. June 1940. As Paris falls to the Germans, Gaston Cassar - honorable servant of France, devoted husband and father, currently posted as naval attache in Salonica - bids farewell to his beloved wife, aunt and children, placing his faith in God that they will be reunited after the war. But escaping the violence of that cataclysm is not the same as emerging unscathed. The family will never again be whole.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Messud, Claire, 1966-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Fleet, 2024.<br />428 pages : maps (black and white) ; 24 cm<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">6 reserves</span><br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 12 Nov 2024 - C0000020517125<br />Didsbury Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 16 Nov 2024 - C0000020517196<br />Longsight Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 07 Nov 2024 - C0000020515803<br /> Enlightenment / Sarah Perry. https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3774084&CF=BIB Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay have lived all their lives in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are kindred spirits - torn between their commitment to religion and their desire for more. But their friendship is threatened by the arrival of romantic love. Thomas falls for James Bower, who runs the local museum. Together they develop an obsession with the vanished 19th-century astronomer said to haunt a nearby manor, and whose identity might finally be revealed when a startling discovery is made. As Thomas fears a broken heart, he comes to find solace in astronomy: might it offer as much as earthly or even divine love? Meanwhile Grace meets Nathan, a fellow sixth former. They are drawn recklessly together, but quickly pulled apart, casting Grace into the wider world and far away from Thomas. Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay have lived all their lives in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are kindred spirits - torn between their commitment to religion and their desire for more. But their friendship is threatened by the arrival of romantic love. Thomas falls for James Bower, who runs the local museum. Together they develop an obsession with the vanished 19th-century astronomer said to haunt a nearby manor, and whose identity might finally be revealed when a startling discovery is made. As Thomas fears a broken heart, he comes to find solace in astronomy: might it offer as much as earthly or even divine love? Meanwhile Grace meets Nathan, a fellow sixth former. They are drawn recklessly together, but quickly pulled apart, casting Grace into the wider world and far away from Thomas.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Perry, Sarah, 1979-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Jonathan Cape, 2024.<br />381 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm<br /><br />Abraham Moss Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Available - C0000020491261<br />Chorlton Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 15 Nov 2024 - C0000020491258<br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - In-transit from Withington Library to City Library (Set: 30 Oct 2024) - C0000020490867<br />Fallowfield Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - In-transit from Gorton Library to Fallowfield Library (Set: 29 Oct 2024) - C0000020491260<br />Forum Library Wythenshawe - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 14 Nov 2024 - C0000020491255<br />Hulme High St - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Available - C0000020491256<br />North City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Available - C0000020491076<br />Withington Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 02 Nov 2024 - C0000020491259<br /> The safekeep / Yael van der Wouden. https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3774911&CF=BIB It's 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the war is well and truly over. Living alone in her late mother's country home, Isabel's life is as it should be: led by routine and discipline. But all is upended when her brother Louis delivers his graceless new girlfriend, Eva, at Isabel's doorstep - as a guest, there to stay for the season. Eva is Isabel's antithesis: sleeps late, wakes late, walks loudly through the house and touches things she shouldn't. In response Isabel develops a fury-fuelled obsession, and when things start disappearing around the house - a spoon, a knife, a bowl - Isabel's suspicions spiral out of control. In the sweltering peak of summer, Isabel's paranoia gives way to desire - leading to a discovery that unravels all Isabel has ever known. It's 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the war is well and truly over. Living alone in her late mother's country home, Isabel's life is as it should be: led by routine and discipline. But all is upended when her brother Louis delivers his graceless new girlfriend, Eva, at Isabel's doorstep - as a guest, there to stay for the season. Eva is Isabel's antithesis: sleeps late, wakes late, walks loudly through the house and touches things she shouldn't. In response Isabel develops a fury-fuelled obsession, and when things start disappearing around the house - a spoon, a knife, a bowl - Isabel's suspicions spiral out of control. In the sweltering peak of summer, Isabel's paranoia gives way to desire - leading to a discovery that unravels all Isabel has ever known.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Wouden, Yael van der<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>UK : Viking, 2024.<br />262 pages ; 21 cm<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">30 reserves</span><br /><br />Arcadia Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 12 Nov 2024 - C0000020518935<br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - In-transit from Didsbury Library to City Library (Set: 02 Nov 2024) - C0000020517138<br />Didsbury Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - On reserve shelf at Burnage Outreach Library - C0000020517320<br />Forum Library Wythenshawe - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - In-transit from Chorlton Library to Didsbury Library (Set: 02 Nov 2024) - C0000020478973<br />Gorton Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - On reserve shelf at Chorlton Library - C0000020517076<br />Withington Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 15 Nov 2024 - C0000020515593<br /> Creation Lake / Rachel Kushner. https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3843077&CF=BIB Sadie Smith - thirty-four-year-old American undercover agent of ruthless tactics, bold opinions and clean beauty - is sent by her mysterious but powerful employers to a remote corner of France. Her mission: to infiltrate a commune of radical eco-activists influenced by the beliefs of a mysterious elder, Bruno Lacombe, who has rejected civilisation tout court. Sadie casts her cynical eye over this region of ancient farms and sleepy villages, and at first finds Bruno's idealism laughable - he lives in a Neanderthal cave and believes the path to enlightenment is a return to primitivism. But just as Sadie is certain she's the seductress and puppet master of those she surveils, Bruno Lacombe is seducing her with his ingenious counter-histories, his artful laments, his own tragic story. Sadie Smith - thirty-four-year-old American undercover agent of ruthless tactics, bold opinions and clean beauty - is sent by her mysterious but powerful employers to a remote corner of France. Her mission: to infiltrate a commune of radical eco-activists influenced by the beliefs of a mysterious elder, Bruno Lacombe, who has rejected civilisation tout court. Sadie casts her cynical eye over this region of ancient farms and sleepy villages, and at first finds Bruno's idealism laughable - he lives in a Neanderthal cave and believes the path to enlightenment is a return to primitivism. But just as Sadie is certain she's the seductress and puppet master of those she surveils, Bruno Lacombe is seducing her with his ingenious counter-histories, his artful laments, his own tragic story.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kushner, Rachel<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Jonathan Cape, 2024.<br />407 pages ; 23 cm<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">40 reserves</span><br /><br />Beswick Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 09 Nov 2024 - C0000020517254<br />Chorlton Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 13 Nov 2024 - C0000020517257<br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - In-transit from Didsbury Library to Arcadia Library (Set: 01 Nov 2024) - C0000020516622<br />Fallowfield Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 15 Nov 2024 - C0000020517253<br />Gorton Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 12 Nov 2024 - C0000020517256<br />Longsight Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 11 Nov 2024 - C0000020517258<br />Newton Heath Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 02 Nov 2024 - C0000020517255<br />Withington Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - In-transit from Avenue Library to City Library (Set: 02 Nov 2024) - C0000020517259<br /> Playground / Richard Powers. https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3864113&CF=BIB 'Playground' follows four lives - a marine biologist, an artist, a schoolteacher, and an AI pioneer - that intersect on an island in French Polynesia when it is chosen as a base for seasteading, humanity's next great adventure. 'Playground' follows four lives - a marine biologist, an artist, a schoolteacher, and an AI pioneer - that intersect on an island in French Polynesia when it is chosen as a base for seasteading, humanity's next great adventure.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Powers, Richard, 1957-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Hutchinson Heinemann, 2024.<br />381 pages ; 24 cm<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">31 reserves</span><br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - In-transit from Arcadia Library to Chorlton Library (Set: 30 Oct 2024) - C0000020517752<br />Didsbury Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 29 Oct 2024 - C0000020517807<br /> Stone yard devotional / Charlotte Wood. https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3737370&CF=BIB A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place she grew up, finding solace in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of the Monaro. She does not believe in God, doesn't know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive life almost by accident. As she gradually adjusts to the rhythms of monastic life, she ruminates on her childhood in the nearby town. She finds herself turning again and again to thoughts of her mother, whose early death she can't forget. Disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations. First comes a terrible mouse plague, each day signalling a new battle against the rising infestation. Second is the return of the skeletal remains of a sister who left the community decades before to minister to deprived women in Thailand - then disappeared, presumed murdered. A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place she grew up, finding solace in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of the Monaro. She does not believe in God, doesn't know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive life almost by accident. As she gradually adjusts to the rhythms of monastic life, she ruminates on her childhood in the nearby town. She finds herself turning again and again to thoughts of her mother, whose early death she can't forget. Disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations. First comes a terrible mouse plague, each day signalling a new battle against the rising infestation. Second is the return of the skeletal remains of a sister who left the community decades before to minister to deprived women in Thailand - then disappeared, presumed murdered.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Wood, Charlotte, 1965-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Sceptre, 2023.<br />297 pages ; 24 cm<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">15 reserves</span><br /><br />Arcadia Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - In-transit from Chorlton Library to Didsbury Library (Set: 02 Nov 2024) - C0000020517572<br />Chorlton Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - On reserve shelf at Chorlton Library - C0000020517696<br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - In-transit from Didsbury Library to Chorlton Library (Set: 02 Nov 2024) - C0000020515512<br />Didsbury Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 15 Nov 2024 - C0000020517199<br /> Held / Anne Michaels. https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3675786&CF=BIB 1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory - a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night, his childhood on a faraway coast - as the snow falls. 1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near another river - alive, but not still whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and endeavours to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures: ghosts whose messages he cannot understand. So begins a narrative that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequence igniting and re-igniting as the century unfolds. 1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory - a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night, his childhood on a faraway coast - as the snow falls. 1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near another river - alive, but not still whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and endeavours to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures: ghosts whose messages he cannot understand. So begins a narrative that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequence igniting and re-igniting as the century unfolds.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Michaels, Anne, 1958-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.<br />220 pages ; 23 cm<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">14 reserves</span><br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Reservation allocation expired (Set: 02 Nov 2024) - C0000020515519<br />Didsbury Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 05 Nov 2024 - C0000020517205<br />Hulme High St - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - In-transit from Didsbury Library to City Library (Set: 01 Nov 2024) - C0000020517559<br /> Orbital / Samantha Harvey. https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3675839&CF=BIB Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft above the Earth. They are there to collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day. Yet although separated from the world they cannot escape its constant pull. News reaches them of the death of a mother, and with it comes thoughts of returning home. They look on as a typhoon gathers over an island and people they love, in awe of its magnificence and fearful of its destruction. The fragility of human life fills their conversations, their fears, their dreams. So far from Earth, they have never felt more part - or protective - of it. Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft above the Earth. They are there to collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day. Yet although separated from the world they cannot escape its constant pull. News reaches them of the death of a mother, and with it comes thoughts of returning home. They look on as a typhoon gathers over an island and people they love, in awe of its magnificence and fearful of its destruction. The fragility of human life fills their conversations, their fears, their dreams. So far from Earth, they have never felt more part - or protective - of it.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Harvey, Samantha, 1975-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Jonathan Cape, 2023.<br />136 pages : map (black and white) ; 21 cm<br /><br />Chorlton Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - In-transit from City Library to Chorlton Library (Set: 25 Oct 2024) - C0000020484695<br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Available - C0000020484612<br />Forum Library Wythenshawe - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Available - C0000020492694<br />Longsight Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 09 Nov 2024 - C0000020483253<br />Withington Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 18 Nov 2024 - C0000020484557<br />